Posted on 10/18/2010 11:00:15 PM PDT by jocon307
We told you that tonight's New York gubernatorial debate—with seven participants!—would be crazy, but we could have never anticipated this level of it: watch as Jimmy McMillan, of the "Rent Is Too Damn High" party, uh... introduces himself.
Most amusing video at link
http://tv.gawker.com/5667182/crazy-rent-is-too-damn-high-candidate-steals-the-show
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So that’s what happened to Mr. T!
There is a difference between saying what you really believe, and I have no doubt Mr. McMillan says what he means and means what he says, and being able to convert that into results.
I liked most of what he said, but I don’t really understand how rents would be lowered. Was he talking about rent controlled areas, or state/city owned buildings? If he was referring to privately owned buildings, then no, I can’t follow how he can get from proposed solution to desired effect.
Additionally, he seemed focused on NYC life, but there is the rest of the state that has different concerns. As I see things now, taxes have raised in upstate and western NY to subsidize tax rates in NYC, which seems inherently unfair. If NYC dwellers want to vote themselves generous services, then they should pay for them. As it is right now, money is being sucked from other parts of the state and placed right in the city, and the jobs situation in Buffalo, Rochester and Binghamton, to name a few, has deteriorated over the last 4 years.
Anyone who thinks they can address all the state’s problems with more rent control in the city is really just a complete moron.
“So that’s what happened to Mr. T!”
LOL! I guess he didn’t make the cut in the new movie and decided to enter politics instead!
“Additionally, he seemed focused on NYC life, but there is the rest of the state that has different concerns.”
Of course you are right.
I was born and raise in NYC, but I thought today that what Palladino needs to do (or the next guy/gal, since Carl seems to be self-destructing) is to just say OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER again: NY NEEDS A GOVERNOR FROM UPSTATE!!!
I don’t know who the last one would be. I remember back to Nelson Rockefeller, and Pataki was from the outer ring of suburbs I think.
It might be the best thing that could happen for NY.
And no, you can’t have Christie, he’s ours!
(NY refugee here! Almost totally converted to a Jersey Girl after 22 years....almost)
Actually he's pitching gold now. I expect we'll see him on TV during Glenn Beck one of these days.
I think I’m about to head for the exit also. The hubby and I have had nothing but employment problems for about the last 9 years, and with all the taxes and fees and too little growth to support them it has gotten to be too much of a burden on our quality of life.
But, what’s the % of voters upstate compared to the overall number of NY State voters? Aren’t there more votes in the city?
You just witnessed the new AutoTune SuperStar!
I know that when Hillary ran for Senate they said she wouldn’t have won without winning the upstate vote. Which made me sick.
Guck Fawker.
Depends on how you slice it. With about 8M people in NYC that’s 42%, or less than half, of the 19M statewide. But add in almost 3M more from just Westchester County and Long Island, surrounding NYC, and you’ve reversed the ratio.
“Aren’t there more votes in the city?”
It is about a 50/50 split between NYC and the rest of the state. But of course many of the suburbs surrounding NYC might have to be counted as “city” voters and that would give them the majority, which probably explains why they can’t get rid of the libs.
Although I’d have to say political dysfunction in NY is a truly bi-partisan affliction.
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